9780807064313

Notes of a Native Son

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807064313

  • ISBN10:

    0807064319

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 1984-07-09
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
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Summary

Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Preface to the 1984 Edition ix
Autobiographical Notes 3(10)
I
Everybody's Protest Novel
13(11)
Many Thousands Gone
24(22)
Carmen Jones: The Dark is Light Enough
46(11)
II
The Harlem Ghetto
57(16)
Journey to Atlanta
73(12)
Notes of a Native Son
85(32)
III
Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown
117(7)
A Question of Identity
124(14)
Equal in Paris
138(21)
Stranger in the Village
159

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